On Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:04 am Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/9/21 Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Saturday, September 20, 2008 3:04 pm Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> Or put in other words: What are the exact prerequisites > >>> (hardware/software) for kernel modesetting to actually work. And what > >>> kind of quirks are no longer necessary then (all?) ? > >> > >> Ah I didn't read the whole original message. Kernel mode setting should > >> work on 855 and above (and possibly 830 though I haven't tested). > >> Suspend/resume code is part of the patch, but is currently broken on all > >> chipsets that I'm aware of (we'll get this fixed before merging > >> upstream). > >> > >> Maybe you can point me at the original bug report so I can take a look? > > > > It's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499442 > > > > The beginning of the discussion is > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pm-utils/2008-September/001637.html > > Hang on, Michael. I don't think we're talking about kernel modesetting > here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the modesetting patches > have landed in upstream linux, much less in 2.6.26. I don't think > Debian has backported the modesetting patches, right? > > What we're concerned with right now is just if the 915 drm driver in > recent vanilla kernels (2.6.26 and 2.6.27-rc*) is saving and restoring > all the state necessary around a suspend/resume cycle to get the > display up. Having all the modesetting done in the drm driver is a new > feature around the corner. Right now, you need some coordination > between the X video driver and the DRM driver to get the display > restored.
Having the video ROM from this machine might help me fix things. Can someone get it for me? Just do the following as root: # cd /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:02.0/ # echo 1 > rom # cat rom > /tmp/rom.bin # echo 0 > rom Thanks, -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
